New York City
August 21 - 24, 2025
U-Haul Gallery is pleased to announce Neal Cashman: Walking Images
Walking Images presents a series of works that reflect a sincere engagement with and curiosity about the mediated world. In Cashman’s work, technology serves to reveal. Everyday images taken on neighborhood walks are transformed through digital processes, adding depth, overlays and visual noise. These images are 3D printed as moulds, and cast in plaster before UV printing. Evoking the otherworldliness of Renaissance fresco, these printed-plaster images invoke a transcendent space of depth and possibility. Images are unfixed, occupying a constant state of becoming.
The telos of technological interventions in this work is not total control, but revelation; a new world posited by new technologies. Images of the mundane and cursory–sidewalk tree beds, parking lot corners, chain link fences–are transformed into ecstatic spaces. Cashman argues that image making is not a dead-end in the face of computational technology, but rather enriched and broadened by it. These works embrace mediation as a fact of our access to the world, rather than a condition that inhibits it. We are always already born into the Symbolic order. The only way out is through. We can deny the conditions of our being or we can inhabit them; play with them. Framed by the artist in wood, the synthetic imagery of the computer machine is merged and enclosed by nature, as it has always been.